After being confronted with petty officialdom and apparently random rule-making once too often, TRACEY BROWN AND MICHAEL HANLON I decided to write a book looking at the way in which the seemingly unanswerable interests of ‘safety and security’ are being used by companies, officials and security agencies all over the world and in all walks of life.
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It’s always a tabby cat. That’s the rule. Or, sometimes, a spaniel. The science of phantom cats is a very strange one indeed and while it says nothing about cats it does say an awful lot about humans.
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MICHAEL HANLON: What interests me is why so many apparently bright people persist in believing that 50 years ago the American government, in cahoots with its allies in Europe, Australia and elsewhere – and with its sworn enemies in the USSR – engaged in the mother of all cover-ups...
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